STANFORD, California, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following remarks on May 30, 2024, by Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter at the Promoting Competition in Artificial Intelligence Workshop: * * * As Prepared for Delivery Good morning, and welcome! I am incredibly excited to be here this morning with all of you for this conference. On behalf of the Antitrust Division, thank you to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford Graduate Schoo  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Nearly 300 girls walked over the Aztec Center bridge to Montezuma Hall in the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union at San Diego State University and gathered for a day of inspiration, hands-on science, career advice and networking at the first Young Women's Conference (YWC) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) West for the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton   more

LANSING, Michigan, May 31 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general calling on the U.S. Department of Education (Department) to swiftly implement recently proposed regulations, which would provide needed relief for some of the nation's most burdened student loan borrowers and help address the student debt crisis. The proposed regulations would waive or reduce student loan repayment  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 31 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced his appointment of a new Acting County Prosecutor for Gloucester County, selecting the lead attorney from the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice's (DCJ) Human Trafficking Unit for the role, as the current prosecutor approaches retirement. Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Vogelsong-Parvin will replace Acting  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release: An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for his involvement in two shootings, as well as illegally possessing a handgun and possessing heroin he intended to distribute, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Antoine Hawkins, 31, of Newark, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden to an in  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release: A Florida man was sentenced to 96 months in prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) kickback scheme, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna, District of New Jersey, and U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe, Southern District of Florida, announced today. Kareem Memon, 34, of Coral Springs, Florida, previously pleaded guilty before U  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release: A Jersey City man was convicted today on a charge of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Jamil King, 32, of Jersey City, was convicted after a two-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas in Newark federal court. The jury deliberated two hours before returning the guilty verdict. According to docum  more